I got a new HDD for my media centre (1TB WD Green for R860), fitted it and installed Windows 7 64-b Ultimate.
And ran smack bang into the same problems that caused me to ditch it for Windows XP. The bloody drivers and interfaces to the M-Audio Fast Track Pro USB sound card.
Crap drivers from a company (now Avid) that doesn't give much of a shirt about bugs and bad sw.
Two problems - one is that the driver does not tell Windows that it has three sets of playback device - Line Out 1/2, Line Out 3/4 and SPDIF out. It only sees 1/2 and SPDIF. Irritating.
In Win XP I could also use the ASIO drivers and remap them as I wanted, so that the output device would play through ALL, or SOME of the outputs selected. This was very important to me as it meant I could output to different amps or DACs and swap between them to do A/B comparisons. :facepalm:
So: anyone have a bit of guru with these things? Any way I can get it to recognize both the Line Out channels?
More importantly, is there a way using a plugin and FooBar to do the channel mapping thing?
I'm running the WASAPI plugin for Foobar, but it's not great. It doesn't want to talk 24-bit to the soundcard. It also doesn't allow remapping. :vsad:
And ran smack bang into the same problems that caused me to ditch it for Windows XP. The bloody drivers and interfaces to the M-Audio Fast Track Pro USB sound card.
Crap drivers from a company (now Avid) that doesn't give much of a shirt about bugs and bad sw.
Two problems - one is that the driver does not tell Windows that it has three sets of playback device - Line Out 1/2, Line Out 3/4 and SPDIF out. It only sees 1/2 and SPDIF. Irritating.
In Win XP I could also use the ASIO drivers and remap them as I wanted, so that the output device would play through ALL, or SOME of the outputs selected. This was very important to me as it meant I could output to different amps or DACs and swap between them to do A/B comparisons. :facepalm:
So: anyone have a bit of guru with these things? Any way I can get it to recognize both the Line Out channels?
More importantly, is there a way using a plugin and FooBar to do the channel mapping thing?
I'm running the WASAPI plugin for Foobar, but it's not great. It doesn't want to talk 24-bit to the soundcard. It also doesn't allow remapping. :vsad:
